Quotes About Passion

A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.

Artistic inspiration ignores the law of supply and demand.

My final word: don't follow your dreams . . . chase them. With a stick, or a shovel, or whatever you have handy. Get that [bleep]ing dream!

It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.

Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.

As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told.

Writing is a calling, not a choice.

When a quiet man is moved to passion, it seems the very earth will shake.

I'm the same guy at that podium preaching to the people on every single song. I'm not doing a dance for you on another song. It's all a direct assault.

The key to happiness, in my opinion, is taking the time to find out what your spirit wants you to do, and doing it.

For me, it was all about working with an inspirational filmmaker.

Take your passion and make it happen.

I just wanted to perform, to sing, dance and act.

I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.

If you don't like basketball and you're from Kentucky, they'll kick you out!

Singing is actually something that I practice almost every day and definitely at the top of my inspirational list.

Sailing is a completely new sport for me and I wasn't sure what to expect but I've definitely got the bug.

I'm on a higher plane with brain with a flame, feel the fire, desire the same.

If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.

To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.

If the thrill is gone, it's time to take it back.

Dance is such a stressful environment.

With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy.